Updates and a Secret Experimental Project

Lots has been going on the past 2 weeks.

My grandson turned 3 and we're hosting a birthday party

this coming weekend.

That means the "honey-do" list gets kicked into high gear.

Big E and I managed to take a large brush pile

to the local mulching plant.

That frees up a parking space

not to mention the yard looks a lot nicer now.

Big E has also hooked up the light in the dining room, 

so now we can see in there past 5:00pm.

I'm finishing up the Christmas decorating,

and I've started another project I'm hoping will be finished Thursday night.

During work on my secret project, 

I discovered that the upstairs bathroom was once painted a lovely pepto bismal pink.

That's only slightly uglier than the shiny speckled wall paneling.

Stay tuned for the updates on my secret.

Yard Updates

Things have been hectic around here,

or at least that's how it seems to me.

We have baseball games

and scout meetings

and backpacking adventures

and all that leaves little time for the house.

It's been raining for weeks,

or at least that's how it feels.

We managed to get half the yard mowed and raked the other day

and Monday I just managed to get the other half mowed.

Afterwards I sat my butt down under the "Whomping Willow"

AKA the Kwanzan Cherry tree that is currently in full bloom.

We have so much on the list of things to do right now it's almost overwhelming.

We will be hosting the first backyard birthday cookout this house has seen 

in a long time-

possibly ever 

I'm not sure.

So I need to get the back yard party ready

by finishing digging out the new garden beds, 

getting some areas tilled, raked and seeded

and removing the brush from the removed shrubs.

And possibly remove the other shrubs on the list.

That's all hard to do in cold pouring rain

and it seems like the weather is only nice when I have a baseball game to be at.

Here's hoping I get a big enough break in the weather to get stuff done!

Over the Weekend

We had quite the busy weekend:

our Cub Scout Blue & Gold Banquet,

visiting daughter and grandson and

trying to get some stuff cleaned up around the house.

Big E was able to get all the scrap metal (including the old fridge)

off to the scrap yard and out of the garage.

 The bonfire pictured above was the result of another part of the clean up.

We had a stack of wood piled in the garage 

from tearing down walls and whatnot.

We managed to get it to the burn pile at the homestead,

and burned all the scrap wood plus all the yard and garden waste from the homestead

and started on a pile of pine branches that have been sitting by the barn.

We actually got a lot accomplished, and that's a good thing

because starting today, our temps are reaching the 60's and 70's.

That means I'll be outside removing shrubs.

That also means more stuff for the burn pile.

But that's not an issue because who doesn't love

a good bonfire?